{"id":66678,"date":"2014-05-15T00:56:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66678"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:28","slug":"adblock-plus-memory-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/adblock-plus-memory-hog\/","title":{"rendered":"Adblock Plus is a memory hog in Chrome and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular <a title=\"Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/adblock-plus.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adblock Plus<\/a> extension may be hogging your computer&#8217;s memory. Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote published a blog post today explaining why Adblock Plus doing this.<\/p>\n<p>The problem comes from Adblock Plus loading custom <a title=\"CSS Stylesheet Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_style_sheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CSS stylesheets<\/a> into every website it loads. This wouldn&#8217;t be a problem except for widespread use of <a title=\"iframe Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTML_element#Frames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iframes<\/a>, which act like separate websites, causing Adblock to load the stylesheet many times.<\/p>\n<p>Each stylesheet takes up 4MB, which can add up for websites that feature lots of ads with iframes. Even social sharing buttons for <a title=\"Facebook news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a title=\"Twitter news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/twitter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> are created with iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66683\" title=\"Adblock Plus task manager\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Adblock-Plus-task-manager.jpg\" alt=\"Adblock Plus task manager\" width=\"412\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Adblock-Plus-task-manager.jpg 412w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/Adblock-Plus-task-manager-229x256.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit ironic that Adblock Plus is causing performance issues when it aims to increase performance by not having ads load.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla and Adblock Plus are working together to resolve the issue. You can follow the <a title=\"Very high style-sets memory usage with AdBlock Plus\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=988266\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bug report<\/a> to see what&#8217;s being done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing the best we can to figure out what&#8217;s wrong and where, then fix it if it&#8217;s on our end,&#8221; said Adblock Plus spokesperson Ben Williams.<\/p>\n<p>If you find <a title=\"Firefox for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a> or Chrome running slowly, you may want to disable Adblock to see if performance improves.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Nicholas Nethercote Mozilla\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2014\/05\/14\/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicholas Nethercote<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/mozilla-firefox-will-not-become-a-mess-of-sponsored-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla: Firefox will not become a mess of sponsored content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/touch-browser-for-windows-8-with-chrome-and-firefox-tablet-mode-2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Touch Browser for Windows 8 with Chrome and Firefox tablet mode<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/opera-21-release\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera 21 now uses hardware acceleration, brings back full URLs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Adblock Plus extension may be hogging your computer&#8217;s memory. 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